All the gas was stolen this week from a Shell station near
the Roseville Square shopping center. And a few days earlier, thieves
had made made an unsuccessful attempt at a 76 station a few blocks away,
Fox40 in Sacramento reported.

According to the manager of the Shell station, a man in a black
pickup pumped 300 gallons of gas, some of it going to a tank in the
pickup's bed. It happened around 1:30 a.m., when the convenience store
was closed.

But security cameras caught the thief using a credit card. The
pump's meter was somehow disabled, and the manager had to check records
to show that the gas was taken.

The same people came back during store hours twice, taking 350
gallons on both occasions.
Each time there was no indication behind the counter that gas was being pumped.

California's average gasoline price set a record Saturday of $4.614
for a gallon of regular, up 12.8 cents overnight. Several service stations are charging more than $5 a gallon for regular gasoline.

Gasoline prices skyrocketed after the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance was knocked offline Monday by a power outage.
Other lingering refinery and pipeline problems also contributed to the
soaring costs at the pump.